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From: The Washington Times | September 30, 2009
Senior Senate Democrats plan to unveil new climate-change legislation Wednesday that will call for steeper cuts in carbon dioxide emissions than a bill that passed the House this summer, but the measure is likely to be held up until President Obama’s top priority, health care reform, is completed. Like the House-passed plan, the Senate bill would cap and gradually reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that can be sent into the atmosphere each year. Such gases, especially carbon dioxide, have been blamed for the gradual warming of the planet, a trend that experts fear will produce environmental ruin over time. …
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